The benefits of living in Southern California: Belle & Sebastian are touring for the first time in years, and have announced just nine North American dates, but one of them is Oct. 3 in LA at the Hollywood Palladium.

No details on on-sale dates quite yet. B&S are also playing San Francisco on Oct. 17, venue still “TBA” (feel free to speculate). Stuart Murdoch and crew last played LA in the summer of 2006, at the Hollywood Bowl with the Shins opening up—just a few months after two Wiltern shows, with the New Pornographers in tow (I was at one!). Thanks to Scenestar for the details.

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It’s Tuesday, June is here and there are a whole mess of shows tonight, including the former Living Suns playing their first show as Dagha Bloom at the Continental Room in Fullerton. The Growlers and Death Hymn Number 9 also on the bill. But, hey, we’d be remiss if we didn’t recommend you check out our show at Detroit Bar, with a rad lineup of the Bellhaunts, The Vespertines, Arrows and Kitten, the latter of which was recently highlighted in this publication.

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Kevin Bronson, friend of the site and the whiz behind Buzz Bands LA, announced on his blog today that he’ll no longer be doing his Internet radio show on the current online-only version of Indie 103.1. Sounds like he’ll probably be doing something similar sometime soon, though. Yay!